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Commentaries on Psalms 69:11

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 69 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Of the word "shoshannim", [See comments on Psalms 45:1], title. The Targum renders it, "concerning the removal of the sanhedrim;'' which was about the time of Christ's death. The Talmudists (t) say, that forty years before the destruction of the temple, the sanhedrim removed, they removed from the paved chamber,...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

I made sackcloth also my garment,.... Though we nowhere read that Jesus put on sackcloth upon any occasion, yet it is not improbable that he did; besides, the phrase may only intend that he mourned and sorrowed at certain times, as persons do when they put on sackcloth: moreover, as the common garb of his forerunner was raiment of camels' hair, with a leathern girdle; so it is very likely his own...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

David penned this psalm when he was in affliction; and in it, I. He complains of the great distress and trouble he was in and earnestly begs of God to relieve and succour him, ver. 1-21. II. He imprecates the judgments of God upon his persecutors, ver. 22-29. III. He concludes with the voice of joy and praise, in an assurance that God would help and succour him, and would do well for the church,...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb unto them. Just as Michael said of David, “How glorious did the King of Israel become in the eyes of his handmaidens.” out of mockery, so did they reproach Christ, “How glorious was the King of Israel, so daintily arrayed in a peasant’s robe, or stripped naked upon his cross.”